Cloud Platform Engineer - Scalable AI & Research Infra

Citadel Securities; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Citadel Securities is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Research Platform Engineering team in Miami or New York. You will design and build scalable cloud-native platform services for research, AI, and data-intensive workloads, improving performance and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure. Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or C++ and familiarity with Kubernetes are essential. Join us to help power critical systems across the firm.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Experience developing cloud-native systems and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to build production software.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud-native platform services and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers for scalable production systems.
• Improve observability, performance, and resiliency across platforms.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Go, Python, C++, or similar languages

Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration

Understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Citadel Securities is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Research Platform Engineering team in Miami or New York. You will design and build scalable cloud-native platform services for research, AI, and data-intensive workloads, improving performance and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure. Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or C++ and familiarity with Kubernetes are essential. Join us to help power critical systems across the firm.